[Sussex] Most insanely useful software every written

[Geoff Teale]

NIce..

I see your point.  I just think `ls` is just soooooo insanely useful that it's 
knida taken as read!


On Monday 28 July 2003 3:58 pm, nik at wired4life.org wrote:
> it was once commented to me that I must use ls about 99% of the time..
> this comment made by a PHB of little brain. fact is ls, and all its
> switches is by far the most useful tool. I mguessing after ls comes vi
> and after vi as apps go traceroute, over ping, as traceroute actually
> tells me more abuot how I got to my destination than the fact I got
> their. Ping is not always instructive either, after all pin gmight say a
> address is unavailble but traceroute shows me why.
>
> As for Vi, well actually vim , VI is just so simple, and yet powerful.
> its like a little swiss army knife of goodness. all the basic tools and
> all under your thumbtip. Now I could talk about emacs but frankly I
> could not get on with a interface that needed ctrl- and something. for
> me 'esc''esc' followed by my command was easy... plus I could walk
> anyone through it remotely and be assued that they were in command or
> edit mode by the presence of the : at the bottom or not!
>
> but even just this very moment ls did its thing for me, letting me see
> the contects of the pwd I was in and seeing that a file should be moved.

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